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How to move a droplet from a datacenter to another?

Posted on February 12, 2014

Say, from NYC1 to SGP1…



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I also want to know,because I want to place my droplet in singapore instead of San Francisco~

Me too! SG is much closer than SF to the consumers of the site hosted on my current droplet.

Create a snapshot of the current droplet then transfer it to SG. <br> <br>After the transfer, create a new droplet at SG with the snapshot. <br> <br>I’ve tried that before, the transfer seems take hours to complete.

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